Package: util-linux Version: 2.12p-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/getopt.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libuuid1 1.37-2 universally unique id library ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library wit ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
--- - 2005-04-28 03:38:29.438100000 -0400 +++ /tmp/getopt1.gz.32328 2005-04-28 03:38:29.432587165 -0400 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Allow long options to start with a single .RB ` \- '. .IP "\-h, \-\-help" -Output a small usage guide and exit succesfully. No other output is generated. +Output a small usage guide and exit successfully. No other output is generated. .IP "\-l, \-\-longoptions longopts" The long (multi\-character) options to be recognized. More than one option name @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ .RB ` \-\- ' and error status 0. .IP "\-V, \-\-version" -Output version information and exit succesfully. No other output is generated. +Output version information and exit successfully. No other output is generated. .SH PARSING This section specifies the format of the second part of the parameters of .B getopt @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ but no second parameter will be generated in unquoted (compatible) mode. Note that many other .BR getopt (1) -implemetations do not support optional arguments. +implementations do not support optional arguments. If several short options were specified after a single .RB ` \- ', @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ If the first character is a .RB ` \- ', -non\-option parameters are outputed at the place where they are found; in normal +non\-option parameters are outputted at the place where they are found; in normal operation, they are all collected at the end of output after a .RB ` \-\- ' parameter has been generated. Note that this @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ .RB ` \- ', getopt goes into compatibility mode. It will interpret its first parameter as the string of short options, and all other arguments will be parsed. It -will still do parameter shuffling (ie. all non\-option parameters are outputed +will still do parameter shuffling (ie. all non\-option parameters are outputted at the end), unless the environment variable .B POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ treats optional arguments that are empty as if they were not present. The syntax if you do not want any short option variables at all is -not very intuitive (you have to set them explicitely to the empty +not very intuitive (you have to set them explicitly to the empty string). .SH AUTHOR

